“I have no information that supports those tweets, and we have looked carefully inside the DoJ has asked me to share with you that the answer is the same for the DoJ in all its components,” Comey added.

After a rough week that saw Attorney General Jeff Sessions recuse himself from a Justice Department investigation into Russia’s election interference, Trump out of the blue published the Tweets at the ungodly hour of 3:35 a.m.

For his part, Rogers said it would violate the law for NSA to ask its British counterpart to spy on a U.S. citizen, much less the President of the United States. He said he knew of no such communication in the past nor would one ever be made.

Judge Andrew Napolitano, a Fox commentator who is known for trafficking in right-wing conspiracy theories, floated the scenario (Mar. 16) after U.S. intelligence agencies and the FBI failed to produce evidence to backup Trump’s assertion.

Napolitano claimed he was told by “three intelligence officials,” all anonymous, that the British GCHQ– the UK’s equivalent of the National Security Agency (NSA)– spied on Trump during the election at Obama’s request.

His unsubstantiated allegations were repeated by both Trump and White House spokesman Sean Spicer.

Keith Girard has 30 years of experience as an award-winning reporter, editor-in-chief, and senior media executive. Keith’s career began in Washington, D.C., where he was a reporter for The Washington Post and a contributing editor for Regardie's and Washingtonian magazines. He also worked as a writer/producer in CNN's Washington Bureau and has written one book on the U.S. Marines in the Gulf War.